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Relationships and Family

Tom Janisse, MD, recently completed nine years as Associate Medical Director of Northwest Permanente Medical Group in Portland, Oregon where he conducted relationship research on physicians with the highest patient satisfaction.

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What accounts for our remarkable ability to get inside another person's head--to know what he or she is thinking and feeling? Marco Iacoboni, a leading neuroscientist, explains the groundbreaking research into mirror neurons, the "smart cells" in our brain...

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Drawing from his own experience and the lives of some of the world’s great writers and poets, David Whyte brings compelling insights to our three most important commitments— to another, to our work, and to ourselves—to frame a complete picture of a satisfying life.

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A series of studies over a decade has investigated transformations in consciousness, or how people make fundamental shifts in perception that alter how they view and interact with themselves and the world around them.

Here in the skeptical West, the notion of a guru is more often associated with scandal and manipulation than as a direct and legitimate means of consciousness transformation. Caplan, a psychotherapist and long-time devotee, attempts to demystify the myths while also pointing out the precariousness of such a journey.